@veggiesbro: Looper was pretty cool. For me I think it does a much better job of grounding the whole paradox issue with Joe saying that time travel wouldn't be invented to 30 years. So for me with that line they've a established a prime reality, the one that is 30 years ahead of Joe's so there are two dimensions essentially which makes the consequences of actions much more manageable than what was presented to us in Bioshock Infinite's ending.
As others have suggested who's to say Booker wouldn't have found another trigger to become Comstock? The game puts way too much emphasis on the baptism scene and in that move negates the gravity of there being multiple universes that demands that multiple versions of a person and their motives exist. I think this is what's been ultimately been bothering me about the ending. It has a nice literary wrap up but matters of metaphysics (quantum mechanics) you can easily come up with universes where Comstock still does exist but in a universe where he was as smart (or smarter) than the Luteces and hence wouldn't need their help building Columbia and the temporal contraption in the first place.
This game also had a lot of rhetoric and hand waving that I didn't really care too much for. The comment by Rosalind about how the universe doesn't like its peas mixed with its porridge is probably the best example of hand-waving and rhetoric put together. I mean think about it! Each time Comstock and/or the Luteces go anywhere they're leaving behind all sorts of DNA from their hair, skin, spittle when they talk, sweet, oils. Maybe the interaction of the actual tear gave Elizabeth her powers but again its speculative due the dodgy explanation.
As I alluded earlier but just to reiterate that for a game to make the substantial claim that there are infinite possible worlds would strangely stick to one narrative structure that somehow supersedes ALL possible outcomes (the baptism scene) just seems to lose its significance. Sorry, but for me the ending presented begins to collapse under the weight of its own universe from which it is derived from upon further inspection.
But I will say that I enjoyed the game a lot and even was taken by the ending as when you're going through it the decision to drown Booker was logical. But perhaps just as our "heroes" came to that logical conclusion in the heat to the moment it wasn't necessarily the be all end all. However Elizabeth being omniscient and omnipresent at this point should have already known this, no?
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